Norman Alden

Norman Alden, born Norman Adelberg on September 13, 1924, was an American character actor who entertained audiences for nearly 50 years with his diverse and memorable performances. Standing at a height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.80m), he possessed a presence that could be both commanding and warm, depending on the role. Alden discovered his passion for acting while attending Texas Christian University, where he participated in on-campus theater productions. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he pursued a career in acting, landing his first television appearance in 1957 on The 20th Century Fox Hour. Throughout his career, Alden amassed an impressive filmography, appearing in dozens of television shows and films. He became known for a wide range of roles, showcasing his versatility and adaptability. Some of his most notable performances include Kranix and Arblus in The Transformers: The Movie (1986), Dr. Linstrom in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), the voice of Kay in The Sword in the Stone (1963), and guest appearances in popular shows like Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, and The Twilight Zone. Alden continued to work steadily until his retirement in 2006. He left behind a legacy of diverse and memorable performances, proving his talent as a true character actor.

Known For: Acting

Born: Forth Worth, Texas, USA, 1924-09-13

Died: 2012-07-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	The Walking Target	Sam Russo	50
2	1961	Operation Bottleneck	Cpl. Lester 'Merc' Davenport	55
3	1961	Portrait of a Mobster	Bo Wetzel	0
4	1961	Secret of Deep Harbor	Barney Haines	10
5	1963	The Nutty Professor	Football Player	65
6	1963	The Sword in the Stone	Kay (voice)	72
7	1964	Man's Favorite Sport?	John Screaming Eagle	69
8	1964	The Patsy	Bully at the Gym	62
9	1965	Andy	Andy Chadakis	80
10	1965	Red Line 7000	Pat	54
11	1966	The Wild Angels	Medic	55
12	1967	First to Fight	Sergeant Schmidtmer	79
13	1967	Good Times	Warren	51
14	1968	Fever Heat	Herbert Hupgrove	0
15	1968	The Devil's Brigade	MP Lieutenant	63
16	1968	Killers Three	Guthrie	42
17	1969	All the Loving Couples	Mitch Burnett	35
18	1969	The Great Bank Robbery	The Great Gregory - Balloonist	63
19	1969	The Pigeon	Carl	0
20	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Major Truman Landon	71
21	1970	The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children	Sheriff Glenn	0
22	1971	Cannon	Mitchell	35
23	1971	The Trackers	Pete Dilworth	57
24	1972	Stand Up and Be Counted	Businessman	70
25	1972	Ben	Policeman	60
26	1972	Where Does It Hurt?	Katzen	51
27	1972	Kansas City Bomber	Horrible Hank Hopkins	59
28	1974	Cry Panic	Doc Potter	68
29	1974	Terror on the 40th Floor	Capt. Parker	42
30	1977	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	McPherson	60
31	1977	Semi-Tough	Coach Alvin Parks	56
32	1978	Ring of Passion	Max Machon	70
33	1979	No Other Love	Les Hollister	70
34	1979	Samurai	Lt. Al DeNisco	0
35	1980	Flamingo Road	Pete	0
36	1980	Cloud Dancer	Dr. Putman	56
37	1980	Back to the Planet of the Apes	Zako	56
38	1980	Borderline	Willie Lambert	58
39	1982	Desperate Lives	Coach	60
40	1985	California Girls	Mr. Pegem	34
41	1985	Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story	Ray Arcel	57
42	1985	Back to the Future	Lou	83
43	1986	The Transformers: The Movie	Kranix (voice)	71
44	1986	Sunday Drive	Norman	0
45	1987	Destination: America	Tom Beller	0
46	1987	Off the Mark	Coach Elam	35
47	1988	Man Against the Mob	Capt. Necker	0
48	1988	Lady Mobster	Sal Borolo	42
49	1988	They Live	Foreman	73
50	1989	Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders	Chief of Police	55
51	1989	Cutting Class	Officer Fondulac	50
52	1989	Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force	Bartender	31
53	1994	Ed Wood	Cameraman Bill	75
54	1998	Patch Adams	Truck Driver	73
55	2002	Night of the Wolf	Carl Casey	53
56	2006	Looking Back at the Future	Himself	73
57	2009	Looking Back to the Future	Self	73

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Man with iron bar	78
2	1954	Lassie		61
3	1954	The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin		69
4	1954	The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin	Black Cloud	69
5	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Norman	78
6	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Johnny Ringo	68
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Purlie Loftus	66
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Deke Franklin	66
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Berber	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Amos Potter	66
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Tom Hart	66
12	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Frank Fallom	54
13	1957	Panic!		0
14	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Ben Regan	62
15	1957	The Thin Man		76
16	1957	Perry Mason	Darrel Reed	77
17	1957	Leave It to Beaver	Water Dept. Worker	70
18	1958	The Texan	Ryan	55
19	1958	The Rifleman	Duff	70
20	1958	Lawman	Charley - Townsman	56
21	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
22	1958	Man with a Camera		46
23	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Rene	67
24	1959	The Lawless Years		70
25	1959	Bonanza	Teller	75
26	1959	Hennesey		60
27	1959	Philip Marlowe		50
28	1959	The Untouchables	Barry Carlton	79
29	1959	The Untouchables	John Henry Whitmore	79
30	1959	Not for Hire		0
31	1959	Mr. Lucky		64
32	1959	Mr. Lucky	Devil	64
33	1960	My Three Sons		65
34	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Tom Strongbow	76
35	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Hank	76
36	1961	Cain's Hundred	Fred Jackson	47
37	1961	Dr. Kildare	Bernie (uncredited)	55
38	1961	Ben Casey		56
39	1961	Everglades		85
40	1962	Saints and Sinners	Frank Donelli	60
41	1962	Combat!	Pfc. Cooper	77
42	1962	Combat!	Pvt. Buford	77
43	1963	The Dakotas		57
44	1963	Temple Houston	Carlton Owens	57
45	1963	Burke's Law	Mark Hodges	60
46	1963	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	Broken Mouth	53
47	1963	My Favorite Martian	Detective Harris	60
48	1964	The Cara Williams Show		50
49	1965	The Big Valley	Jeff Bowden	61
50	1965	Hogan's Heroes	Sergeant Krebs	75
51	1965	Honey West	Ben Fancher	70
52	1965	Honey West	Artie Dixon	70
53	1965	The F.B.I.	Norman Frome	55
54	1965	The F.B.I.	Worth	55
55	1966	Batman	Henchman #1	73
56	1966	Family Affair		66
57	1966	Run, Buddy, Run		0
58	1967	Rango		0
59	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		62
60	1967	The Danny Thomas Hour	Marshak	50
61	1967	Mannix		67
62	1967	Mannix	Travers	67
63	1967	Mannix	Lou Griswold	67
64	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Cameron	71
65	1968	Adam-12	Sgt. Hardwick	70
66	1968	Adam-12	Charley Baker	70
67	1968	The Mod Squad		63
68	1968	The Mod Squad	Parker	63
69	1968	The Mod Squad	Russ Barry	63
70	1969	Medical Center		61
71	1969	To Rome with Love		50
72	1969	Love, American Style	Paul	61
73	1969	Love, American Style	Barry	61
74	1969	Love, American Style	Bernie	61
75	1970	Dan August	Benjamin Marsh	68
76	1971	Cannon		65
77	1971	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Henry Grover	63
78	1971	McMillan & Wife	Randy Baine	69
79	1972	The Rookies		68
80	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
81	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Sgt. Dan Healy	69
82	1972	Kung Fu	Sheriff Crossman	77
83	1973	Barnaby Jones	Timmer	69
84	1973	Super Friends		76
85	1973	Super Friends	Aquaman (voice)	76
86	1973	Kojak	Foster	70
87	1974	Devlin		50
88	1974	The Manhunter		50
89	1974	Planet of the Apes		69
90	1974	The Rockford Files	Roland Eddy	75
91	1975	Bronk		62
92	1975	Fay	Al Cassidy	50
93	1975	Switch	Barney	67
94	1975	Starsky & Hutch		73
95	1975	One Day at a Time		67
96	1976	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman	Coach Leroy Fedders	71
97	1976	Alice		71
98	1976	Electra Woman and Dyna Girl	Professor Frank Heflin	63
99	1976	Charlie's Angels	Louis Fluellen	67
100	1976	Charlie's Angels	P. J. Wilkes	67
101	1976	Charlie's Angels	Jake Barnett	67
102	1976	Quincy, M.E.		75
103	1977	Hunter		80
104	1977	Eight Is Enough		60
105	1977	The All-New Super Friends Hour		74
106	1977	Young Dan'l Boone		50
107	1977	The Love Boat	Ralph	63
108	1977	What Really Happened to the Class of '65?		45
109	1978	Dallas	Senator Orloff	69
110	1978	Vega$		70
111	1979	The Facts of Life		70
112	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
113	1979	California Fever		50
114	1980	Stone		60
115	1980	Enos		60
116	1981	Hill Street Blues	Art Eastland	76
117	1981	Code Red	Robert Melton	55
118	1981	The Fall Guy		76
119	1981	Falcon Crest	Det. Bitterman	55
120	1981	Nero Wolfe		74
121	1982	Cagney & Lacey	Dan Cobbin	69
122	1982	Silver Spoons		63
123	1982	Matt Houston		62
124	1982	Matt Houston	Sheriff Tim Keeler	62
125	1983	The A-Team	Ed Maloney	75
126	1983	The A-Team	Mickey Stern	75
127	1983	Webster		59
128	1983	Hardcastle and McCormick		64
129	1984	Hunter	Jerry Walsh	72
130	1984	Hunter	Mike, Missing Persons	72
131	1984	Hunter	Mike, Missing Persons (uncredited)	72
132	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Mercer Hawthorne	75
133	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Bart Klapper	75
134	1986	The Hogan Family		68
135	1986	Sledge Hammer!	Roscoe	79
136	1987	21 Jump Street		72
137	1988	TV 101	Ralphie	50
138	1992	Bodies of Evidence		75
139	1995	JAG	Mr. Platt	73
140	1996	Tracey Takes On...		85

Norman Alden

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